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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well, poets should write truth as they experience it.
If she was not doing that then she was not being a true poet.
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According to Seaton, she didn't discover the truth until middle age, which is exactly when she came out. Before that, she seems to have believed she was straight. She talks about having being opened up to sexuality itself in her late thirties by a man, then discovering her true sexuality some time after that.
It sounds as though she was truthful before -- just unaware of her real orientation.
She might even agree with you that she wasn't a fully formed poet until she knew herself as a woman, given what she's written about the changes in her work.